We are pleased to announce the theme of our 2024 conference: Revisiting Region: Locating the "Where" in American Studies." The #CFP is now live on our website! Join us to explore the dynamic role of region within #AmericanStudies. newenglandasa.org/annual-confere…

The City of Boston is seeking researchers to study the history and legacy of slavery in Boston and will award six contracts through a request for proposals (RFP). The deadline to submit proposals is November 6. Learn more at boston.gov/reparations

Doing #history is all about reckoning with the unexpected. Today’s find: Here’s Charles Sumner’s hat Massachusetts Historical Society #twitterstorians #materialculture

Check out this list of the best Boston history books historyofmassachusetts.org/boston-history…

Join MHS Research today at 5pm in person or virtually for “The Battle-Axe Letter: The Sexual Politics of Abolitionism & the ‘Annihilation of the Family State’” with Dan Joslyn presenting & Holly Jackson commenting. Please register here: tinyurl.com/34vamtne #MHS1791

Check out this WBUR story on ⁦@maxchappy⁩’s great new Louisa May Alcott research — in the current issue of J19!! It’s got a little something for everyone — Short Fiction! Archives! Pen names! Ghosts! wbur.org/news/2023/10/3…

Rev250 resource of the day — Massachusetts Historical Society’s 2023 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for best recent book on Massachusetts history went to Andrew M. Wehrman Andrew Wehrman: @profwehrman.bsky.social for “The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution”: buff.ly/3QKQAJh

C19 folks! Check out this piece in the The Guardian about @maxchappy’s recent recovery work on Louisa May Alcott’s stories!! (Two of the stories in question and Max’s introduction to them can be found in the current issue of J19!) theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

Harvard History & Literature is hiring across multiple field! Applications due December 15: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12709

The New England Quarterly (NewEnglandQuarterly) closes its 96th volume with the December issue. Essays include a revealing account of how Charles Sumner's personal relationships with friends & neighbors shaped his consequential political career. Read more 👇 direct.mit.edu/tneq/issue/96/4

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.4: December 2023. Read more here: newenglandquarterly.org/2023/12/19/vol…

Just in time for this weekend's Slavery in JP event Hidden Jamaica Plain has provided a new article on our website - an overview of this topic with lots of amazing research. ow.ly/CQlj50QtNWz

Jane Kemensky calls for a “big tent approach” to patriotism and the 250th and calls on her “friends in the center and on the left to pick up the flag” on Day 2 of VA250 at Colonial Williamsburg. #commoncause #va250 #usa250

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.1: March 2024. Read more here: newenglandquarterly.org/2024/03/28/vol…

The NEQ announces the Margaret Fuller Prize: $2500 to be awarded annually to an outstanding essay in literary studies on a New England subject, any period. All submissions considered for publication. 7-12k words, previously unpublished. Deadline June 15. Submit to [email protected]

The latest issue of NewEnglandQuarterly showcases rich new work on the Transcendentalists, opening with an analysis of the drawings in Henry David Thoreau's journal. "Why Did Thoreau Draw in His Journal?" by Kathleen Coyne Kelly is available to read here 👇🏻 bit.ly/3Wbp4rn

The settler university; the ends of affirmative action; Black campus protest; human remains in university collections. Historians, curators, legal scholars on these topics and more 9/27 Massachusetts Historical Society. Keynote on Yale and slavery by David Blight. Register here masshist.org/racial-histori…